ELA+5+Lesson+17

Topic Lesson 17: //**Lafff from Best Shorts**//

Common Core Standards RL5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. W5.3b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to ssituations.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will use text clues to make inferences and predictions. 2. Students will identify problem/conflict of a character. 3. Students will write a descriptive paragraph.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __ In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, __ by Bette Bao Lord
 * __ Bread and Roses Too, __ by Katherine Paterson
 * __ The Time Cavern, __ by Todd A Fonseca
 * __ Time Warp Trio __ series, by Jon Scieszka

Resource Links
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 * View video, //**Back to the Future**//

Activities
 * Your Turn **, Student Book, page 445. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "Imagine the Future" or "Time Travel."

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 193-194 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T129 and R18 3. Weekly Test 17.5- 17.6

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